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What's the worst town in Scotland?

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Callum McGregor, Mar 22, 2025.

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  1. jake10

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    I've been living in Leeds since thatcher forced me to move to find work but I'll be moving back home to Scotland in a few years so it's great having so many recommendations OF WHERE NOT TO MOVE TO.
     
  2. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    take your pick from Ayrshire

    Saltcoats/Adrossan
    Patna
    Bellsbank
    Dalmellington
    Drongan
    Muirkirk
    Irvine
    Kilmarnock
    Cumnock
    New Cumnock
    Girvan
    Maybole

    all absolute cess pits
     
  3. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Is it the people in these places that make them so *?
     
  4. Buster Gold Member Gold Member

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    Been to Saltcoats and Ardrossan on holiday as a child, been to Maybole to watch the juniors and it "appeared" to be a sleepy village. My pals family came from Muirkirk and he used to go his holidays there and loved it. Definitely the standard of people who live there has declined although l worked the Gorbals for 15 years and the vast majority of the residents were good decent people as is probably the case everywhere
     
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  5. Buster Gold Member Gold Member

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    What is Larbert like?
     
  6. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Looks and feels just like Falkirk.
     
  7. Buster Gold Member Gold Member

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    Is that a good or bad thing?

    My gran had relatives that lived there and I used to go and stay as a child..............it was like a different world (In a good way)
     
  8. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Neither really. I wouldn't call either a dump, or anywhere particularly nice.
     
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  9. Cumbernauld Bhoy67

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    Shooting myself in the foot, but being honest. Cumbernauld. It’s surely got to be in the top 3 biggest shitholes in Scotland.
     
  10. constant

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    You said it, not us. :BR1:

    But yeah Cumbernauld is pretty * too, even though there are some good parts to it as well, I mean even Dennistoun has some fancy bits to it too. :giggle1:

    And @hiphopaddict Wester Hailes in Edinburgh is a right dive too. Avoid if you can.
     
  11. Twisty . Gold Member

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    In town centre terms I would agree but apart from Carbrain it's not that bad really. Helps being propped up by the posh end ... Craigmarloch, Westerwood and Dullatur. Everywhere else is just standard big town places. Not the best to look at but far from the worst.

    Criminal the lack of any sort of attractions though for a town of it's size. Just seems to rely on green space with a few paths.
     
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    Cumbernauld sounds like a lovely place and it's not far off a quality sausage. When my estate was built they tried to make it all lovey dovey with weird streetnames. Now we have gangs here like 'the cherryblossom hill posse' and the 'peachcroft crew of pinkleton grove'
     
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    Yes you are correct about this.

    Cumbernauld is a black belt in being a shitehole. With its Soviet Russia apartment blocks....and its extra boring depressive identical roundabouts....and also it's obvious accent problem among the locals....
    It all adds up to making Cumbernauld a top destination for anti-thrill seekers the world over....unrivalled in terms of boredom and lack of imagination....Cumbernauld screams 'SHITEHOLE!!!!' louder than most places in Scotland
     
  14. CH4 Gold Member Gold Member

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    I spent many a nights at 450 Cumbernauld Rd when i was wee

    My maw was ill and I was shipped to ma grannies regular

    Right opposite Alexander park loved
    dicking about in there.

    That bad now ? No been there for years.